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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margo throw through Jase's window?

2. What is Margo's gift to Q?

3. What does Q do when Margo is bit by a snake?

4. Why does Q wonder if Margo has gone off on another adventure?

5. What does Margo say she is too vain to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are things chaotic at school and what are a couple incidents that happen as a result?

2. What is the parting scene like between Margo and Q at the end of the night?

3. Who is Robert Joyner and what do Margo and Q have to do with the man?

4. What does Margo give Q to do with as he likes?

5. Who questions Q about Margo's disappearance?

6. About what does Q fantasize concerning Margo as he is going through her room for clues, and what does he decide to do?

7. Describe Ben Starlling and his relationship to Q.

8. What do Margo and Q do to Chuck Parson?

9. What does Margo ask Q when they are driving around, and where do they go?

10. What does Margo say about her boyfriend, Jase, and what is Q's reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What is foreshadowing? How many incidences of foreshadowing are in Paper Towns? How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense?

2. Discuss an example of foreshadowing in Paper Towns including why you believe it is foreshadowing. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. How do you think most people react to uncertainty in their lives? Use examples from Paper Towns and your own live to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

Many people were running from their problems, such as jobs they hated, marriages which were bad or escaping from relatives they did not like, by leaving for the gold fields. Many realized very quickly that no matter how far they ran their character flaws were always there. Margo has run from her problems but then finds she must face the central cause of his problems, herself.

1. Running from problems by going somewhere else is called a "geographic cure." Discuss what do you think this means.

2. Do you believe taking the geographic cure is a good idea or a bad idea? Why or why not? Could it be different depending on the circumstance? How did running help Margo? How did it harm her?

3. Discuss two situations that might respond well to a geographic cure and two that wouldn't be helped with on. Does Margo's determination to leave home seem like a geographic cure? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Paper Towns based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Paper Towns is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Paper Towns a successful novel? What about young teens?

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